Lucia Pitzurra
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Recent Articles
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Marzuttini F, Mancusi A, Bonato S, Griselli M, Tricarico S, Casarola G, et al.
Ann Hematol
. 2021 Jun;
100(9):2375-2380.
PMID: 34180023
Damage to gut mucosa following conditioning regimens may favour bacterial infections that can trigger graft versus host disease (GvHD) in patients undergoing allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT). Rifaximin, an...
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Papalini C, Belfiori B, Martino G, Papili R, Pitzurra L, Ascani S, et al.
Case Rep Infect Dis
. 2019 Dec;
2019:7403878.
PMID: 31827952
is a dimorphic fungus, endemic in the Americas, Africa (var. ), India, and Southeast Asia. infection is rarely diagnosed in Italy, while in Latin America, progressive disseminated histoplasmosis (PDH) is...
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Cartechini L, Palmieri M, Vagnini M, Pitzurra L
Top Curr Chem (Cham)
. 2016 Aug;
374(1):5.
PMID: 27572988
Despite the large diffusion of natural organic substances in art-historical materials, their characterization presents many challenges due to the chemical complexity and instability with respect to degradation processes. Among natural...
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Prigitano A, Esposito M, Cogliati M, Pitzurra L, Santamaria C, Tortorano A
New Microbiol
. 2014 May;
37(2):237-40.
PMID: 24858652
We describe a case of bloodstream infection caused by a Candida krusei strain that developed echinocandin resistance during caspofungin therapy. Three mutations were found in the HS1 region of the...
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Stefanetti V, Marenzoni M, Lepri E, Coletti M, Casagrande Proietti P, Agnetti F, et al.
Med Mycol Case Rep
. 2014 Apr;
4:19-22.
PMID: 24707460
Ascending infections of equine uterus frequently result in placentitis and abortions; most of these infections are bacterial and are less commonly due to fungi. This report describes an abortion case...
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Moretti S, Bozza S, Massi-Benedetti C, Prezioso L, Rossetti E, Romani L, et al.
J Antimicrob Chemother
. 2013 Nov;
69(4):1065-74.
PMID: 24265229
Objectives: Micafungin inhibits 1,3-β-D-glucan synthase and interferes with fungal cell wall synthesis. Clinically, micafungin has been shown to be efficacious for the treatment of invasive fungal infections. However, little is...
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De Luca A, Carvalho A, Cunha C, Iannitti R, Pitzurra L, Giovannini G, et al.
PLoS Pathog
. 2013 Jul;
9(7):e1003486.
PMID: 23853597
The ability to tolerate Candida albicans, a human commensal of the gastrointestinal tract and vagina, implicates that host defense mechanisms of resistance and tolerance cooperate to limit fungal burden and...
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Savini V, Hendrickx M, Sisti M, Masciarelli G, Favaro M, Fontana C, et al.
Med Mycol
. 2012 Nov;
51(4):438-43.
PMID: 23170963
A yeast strain was isolated from the sputum sample of a leukaemia patient in the Spirito Santo Hospital of Pescara, Italy. The fungus produced a pigment that formed a reddish...
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Moretti S, Bozza S, DAngelo C, Casagrande A, Della Fazia M, Pitzurra L, et al.
Antimicrob Agents Chemother
. 2012 May;
56(8):4268-76.
PMID: 22644025
This study investigated the possible mechanisms underlying the paradoxical caspofungin activity in vivo in preclinical aspergillosis. We evaluated the activity of escalating doses of caspofungin in vivo in different preclinical...
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Carvalho A, Osorio N, Saraiva M, Cunha C, Almeida A, Teixeira-Coelho M, et al.
PLoS One
. 2011 Dec;
6(11):e28256.
PMID: 22132241
In humans, allelic variants in Toll-like receptors (TLRs) associate with several pathologies. However, the underlying cellular and molecular mechanisms of this association remain largely unknown. Analysis of the human TLR9...